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To: stockman_scott who wrote (73601)	5/4/2010 1:26:28 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

News Analysis Gulf Oil Spill Is Bad, but How Bad? By JOHN M. BRODER and TOM ZELLER Jr. Published: May 3, 2010 WASHINGTON — The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is bad — no one would dispute it. But just how bad? ...contd at nytimes.com ...excerpts worth noting Yet the Deepwater Horizon blowout is not unprecedented, nor is it yet among the worst oil accidents in history. And its ultimate impact will depend on a long list of interlinked variables, including the weather, ocean currents, the properties of the oil involved and the success or failure of the frantic efforts to stanch the flow and remediate its effects. ....................... The ruptured well, currently pouring an estimated 210,000 gallons of oil a day into the gulf, could flow for years and still not begin to approach the 36 billion gallons of oil spilled by retreating Iraqi forces when they left Kuwait in 1991. It is not yet close to the magnitude of the Ixtoc I blowout in the Bay of Campeche in Mexico in 1979, which spilled an estimated 140 million gallons of crude before the gusher could be stopped. And it will have to get much worse before it approaches the impact of the Exxon Valdez accident of 1989, which contaminated 1,300 miles of largely untouched shoreline and killed tens of thousands of seabirds, otters and seals along with 250 eagles and 22 killer whales. ...........................